FOR THE POLITBURO OF THE CC RCP(b)

Comrade Molotov!

I request that you put to a vote of all members of the Politburo a resolution to immediately summon Yakovenko to Moscow, instructing Chutskaev or other Siberian delegates in the same telegram to insert an order regarding his temporary substitution. The summons is proposed for the purpose of becoming acquainted with him and ascertaining the possibility of appointing him to the position of People's Commissar. The grounds are — the recommendation

* In small type are given the responses of E. M. Yaroslavsky, which he inserted in the typewritten copy of the published letter. Editor.

of Theodorovitch, already distributed to members of the Politburo, and three recommendations from the Siberians, which I enclose.166

Lenin

Dictated by telephone

25 December 1921

copies

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the typewritten